Pocket cigar-clipper



(No Model.) j

P. Gr. JOHNSON.

POCKET GIGAR GLIPPBR.

No. 274,201. i Patented Mar. 20,1883.

1 VENTOR UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

FRANK G. JOHNSON, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

POCKET ClGAR-CLIPPER.

SPECIFICATION forming: part of Letters Patent No. 274,201, dated March 20, 1883. Application ined .my 2o, issn. (No monti.)

To all whom it muy conce-rn:

Be it known that I, FRANK G. JOHNSON, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Pocket Cigar-Clippers, of which the following is a specification.

Figurel is a longitudinal vertical section through the line a: a: of Fig. 4, with a cigar inserted to he clipped; Fig. 2, a similar view, with the cigar clipped; Fig. 3, a transverse vertical section through the line z z of Fig. l; Fig. 4, a top view of Fig.` l, and Fig. 5 a top View of Fig. 1, showing a modified shape of the knife.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

D is a circular piece of metal having in and passing through it a conical hole into which is inserted the cigar to he clipped.

A is ashank extending back from the lower side of the holder D, to the end of which is `attached the spring-knife B, by means of the `rivet a, Fig. 2. This springknife B consists ot' a tlat piece of spring-steel about a half an inch wide at its Widest part, and of such thickness as to afford an elasticity that will yield to the action of the thumb and finger. The front end of thisspring B, as shown at O, is bent down at abouta right angle to the top part of it and brought to a cutting-edge and the line of the edge made V shape, as shown at C in Fig. 3. The back faceof the conical holder D, vertically, is slightly curved to correspond with the sli ghtly-curvilinear motion of the cutting-edge of the knife'C. (Shown best in Fig. 1.)

Fig. 5 illustrates the knife end of the spring B as being V shape in the horizontal direction, which leaves the cut on the cigar in the shape ofthe V. In giving the knife this shape itis necessary to have a corresponding portion in a V shape cut vertically out of the back part of the conical holder D, as also shown in Fig. 5.

The operation of the device is as follows: With one hand crowd the pointed end ot' the cigar into the conical hole of the holder D, and Y then, with the other hand, by `means ot' the thumband finger, as shown in Fig. 2, crowd theknit'e C down until the corners of the knife strike on the shank A, which cuts off the point of the cigar.

I am aware that pocket cigar-clippers have been made with plainedged knives and with V-shaped knives, and with conical holders, with the knives hinged bymeans of a rivet at the back end of a shank attached to the conical holder, which require to be opened before the cigar is inserted. I am also aware that a double reversely-curved spring, with cutting ends, has been employed. Therefore I d o notclaim, broadly, a pocket cigar-clipper consisting of a conical holder and a hinged knife or a double reversely-curved spring with cutting ends; but I What I do claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A pocket cigarclipper, constructed as described,.consisting of the bent spring-knife B, conical holder D, and the intermediate rig'id shank, A, combined in the manner and for the purposes set forth.

FRANK G. JOHNSON. Witnesses:

' JNO. J. MALMAR,

N. O. HALsTED. 

